some international borders in africa include arcs of circles
usually around oases
i was also thinking there might be some borders that have been
delineated by curving manmade features
such as walls or road center lines etc
i believe we may have seen some of these in europe
but in such cases the linear features themselves might be
considered the demarcations
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Michael Kaufman
<mikekaufman79@y...> wrote:
> Which leads to the question of which manmade segments
> are NOT straight. The only thing that comes to my
> mind is the DE-PA Arc (or Arcs). Are there any world
> class examples? I can not think of one, but I may be
> forgetting about something.
>
> --- m06079 <barbaria_longa@h...> wrote:
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter
> > Smaardijk"
> > <smaardijk@y...> wrote:
> > > Note also that it is a municipal exclave of
> > Innerferrera.
> > > Cf.
> >
> http://www.innerferrera.ch/innerferrera/geschichte.html
> >
> > (mentions
> > > a territory exchange with Italy in 1962/63 as the
> > cause).
> > > Peter S.
> > >
> > > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "chris
> > schulz"
> > <23568@g...>
> > > wrote:
> > > > Thats right,
> > > >
> > > > as i know its result of special interests of
> > switzerland.
> > > > the shown situation is from val di lei.
> > > >
> >
> http://www.home.pages.at/maxifant/Frames/val-di-lei.htm
> >
> > (german)
> > > > when the wall had been build, switzerland wanted
> > to save
> > this wall
> > > by itself,
> > > > because in the case the wall would be hit (by a
> > bomb or
> > whatever)
> > > all the water would come to the val di Avers in
> > Switzerland.
> > > > so now switzerland can save the wall with own
> > guns,...
> > > >
> > > > regards, chris
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: Artur Kroc
> > > > To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> > > > Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 10:07 PM
> > > > Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Strange section chit
> > border
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > This section looks strange - like african
> > borders - like made
> > by
> > > ruler...
> >
> > straight looking sections of borders are actually
> > fairly common
> > everywhere
> >
> > indeed they occur wherever a border runs directly
> > between 2
> > markers
> > or in other words
> > just about everywhere there is a manmade rather than
> > a natural
> > delineation
> >
> > & that means the great majority of the individual
> > delineations in
> > the world
> >
> > it is just that a much larger scale map is needed to
> > see most of
> > them
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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